Selective
These will help you find "the best sites" on a variety of life sciences topics
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Biosites
Highly selective list of authoritative and stable sites on many topics related to health and
medicine from the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library, with contributions from many
medical libraries in the region. |
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HealthWeb
Highly selective list, similar to BioSites above, from the libraries of the Big Ten universities of the midwest, plus the University of Chicago. |
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InfoMine
Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Resources from UC Riverside. |
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Clearinghouse Guides - Biology
Each entry is a selective guide to Internet resources on one of several biological topics.
The guides are prepared by individuals with subject expertise and must meet certain criteria for inclusion in the
Clearinghouse. |
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Clearinghouse Guides - Health & Medicine
Each entry is a selective guide to Internet resources on one of several dozen biomedical topics, from abortion to virology.
The guides are prepared by individuals with subject expertise and must meet certain criteria for inclusion in the
Clearinghouse. |
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Reviewed / Rated Sites |
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Six Senses
Medical sites on many topics, reviewed on several criteria, including interactivity, stability, content, and overall "experience". |
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Magellan
Health section of a large collection of rated and reviewed sites. Includes a search engine as well as listings of "family friendly" Web sites. |
Exhaustive
These are sites which present as many health and medical resources as possible, some with
little evaluation of a site's content or authoritativeness.
- Achoo
Organized like a Yahoo! service specializing in health and medicine.
- BioCrawler
Database with search and browse functions featuring over 7000 sites in biology and related disciplines. This
site is operated in Germany and is especially helpful in locating resources outside North America (but covers lots
of American sites as well).
- CSU BioWeb
Lists resources in many biology-related subjects.
- Diseases - MeSH Classified
Uses the same biomedical subject vocabulary as MEDLINE and the UCSD ROGER Catalog.
- Martindale's Health Science Guide - Medical Resources (UC Irvine)
- Med Web - Emory University
Choose Browse for subject listings.
- Medical Matrix
Especially good for locating information about e-mail and Usenet discussion groups in Medicine.
- Medical Specialties (EINet Galaxy)
- OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information
A database of nearly 2,000 Internet sites in health and medicine. The site can be used by searching, as well
as browsing through subjects, including MeSH subject terms (the same vocabulary used in MEDLINE) and even NLM Classification
numbers (the same system used to arrange the books at the Biomedical and Medical Center Libraries)! Also features
a search engine for locating material not in their database. The site is in the UK and can be slow.
- WWW Virtual Library - Biosciences
Part of the WWW Virtual Library project, broken down by further topics.
- WWW Virtual Library - Medicine
Part of the WWW Virtual Library project, this site is maintained at Oregon Health Sciences University.
- Yahoo - Health
Choose Medicine for professional resources, Diseases and Conditions for resources on
particular disorders.
- Hardin Meta-Directory
One level "up" from the above sites - links to other large resource guides.
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